The 1st Abbas Kiarostami International Short Film Festival, a platform dedicated to honoring the role and impact of Kiarostami in the history of cinema, has called for entries.

IRNA Two Iranian films are among the 100 best films made since the year 2000, according to London-based daily, The Guardian, which released a list of the best films. Ten (2000) by Abbas Kiarostami and A Separation by Asghar Farhadi were placed 76 and 36 respectively in The Guardians list. Abbas Kiarostami had already proved himself a master ...

The New Yorker | Richard Brody: The nearly complete retrospective of the films of the late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, which runs through August 15th at IFC Center and will travel nationwide, is an extraordinary event. Kiarostami (who was born in 1940) rose to international prominence in the late nineteen-eighties; his fusion of fiction, nonfiction,...

MNA An Iranian official announced on Sunday that the court judging the case for Abbas Kiarostamis death has issued its final verdict reprimanding the guilty surgeon. The case verdict for the late internationally-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami was issued, announced Deputy Head of Iran Medical Council (IRIMC) Mohsen Khalili,...

Financial Tribune- A tree was named after the late world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami at the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic. He was honored on the occasion of his first death anniversary, on July 4; also the documentary 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds made by Kiarostamis close friend and collaborator ...

ISNA | Amin Khosroshahi: An exhibition of graphic designs of Abbas Kiarostami, the late Iranian director of international reputation was officially opened at Tehran�s Forum of Artists on Thursday in the afternoon.  

Tasnim An Iranian health official attributed the cause of death of celebrated film director Abbas Kiarostami to meningeal hemorrhage due to a blood thinner medicine he was given when he was hospitalized in France. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Head of Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIMC) Alireza Zali said a summary ...

The Guardian|Catherine Shoard: Abbas Kiarostami, the veteran Iranian film-maker, has been remembered at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles. Kiarostami, widely felt to be one of the most important directors of the past 20 years, was behind such classics as Close-Up, Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us. The winner of more than 70 awards including ...

Iran Daily- Noted Iranian auteur, Abbas Kiarostami, who died last year, will be commemorated in an exhibition of his final photography series at Art Basel, the giant Swiss art fair that holds its Hong Kong edition in Spring, presented by Rossi & Rossi gallery. According to Variety, it is due to be take place shortly after FilMart and the ...

Big News NetWork- Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, who passed earlier this year, was celebrated at Marrakech Film Festival during a moving hommage hosted by his son, Ahmad Kiarostami, on Saturday evening, December 3, according to Variety. Speaking about his father's uncompromising love of life, Kiarostami told Marrakech audiences that someone once ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) The Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award was granted to late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami at the 21st Busan International Film Festival 2016 (BIFF) in South Korea. The award was received byAhmad Kiarostami (a son of the director) at the opening ceremony of BIFF 2016. The event displayed a documentary entitled "Remembering ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Three Iranian movies have been enlisted in the 21st centurys top three movies, BBC reported. The list has been prepared by views of 177 film critics around the world. From these 177 critics from 46 countries of the world, the film "Mulholland Drive," directed by David Lynch in 2000 occupied the first place in this list. Then "In ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian director, who passed away on July 4, will have a retrospective of his works screened at BIFF. The late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami will be named Asian Filmmaker of the Year at the forthcoming Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) (Oct 6-15). The Palme dOr winning director of Taste Of Cherry, who passed away July ...

Tehran, July 18, IRNA - On July 10, several thousands of cinema lovers bid farewell to internationally acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami in north of Tehran, whose films served as an introduction to Irans vibrant cinema industry to movie lovers from all over the world. Following his death in Paris, a tsunami of headlines from the media and ...

Tehran, July 12, IRNA Iranian prominent director Abbas Kiarostami's 'Taste of Cherry' together with some of his short films was screened on Sunday evening in Hafez Institute in Berlin. A commemoration ceremony for Iranian acclaimed filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was held on Sunday in the presence of Iranian and German cinephiles in Berlin. 'Taste ...

Newspapers on Monday covered the glorious funeral ceremony held for the renowned filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in Tehran. Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisals attendance and the speech he delivered in a meeting of MKO group in Paris also received great coverage. The reactions to his attendance and the criticisms against Saudi Arabias support for such a terrorist ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Irans top security official vows continued aid to Iraq, Syria Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani underlined his countrys continued efforts to help Iraq and Syria in combat against the terrorist groups. Tehran holds funeral ceremony for award-...

Newspapers on Sunday widely covered the death of renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and the possible medical errors that led to his demise. Kiarostami is laid to rest today while the medical error issue is being seriously pursued by the Health Ministry. The remarks by Atomic Energy Organization of Iran [AEOI] Chief Ali Akbar Salehi about ...

Tehran, July 10, The Iran Project Iranians celebrating Eid al-Fitr, Chinese, Iranian FMs discussing implementation of Iran nuclear program, blazing at a petrochemical plant in southwest of Iran and Tehran holding funeral ceremony for award-winning film director dominated the countrys media outlets in the past week (July 04July 10).   Politics  ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Funeral ceremony of the late Iranian internationally-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami is held in Tehran on Sunday. A large crowd of people and Iranian artists, directors, actors and actresses took part in the funeral ceremony. Kiarostami diedlast Monday in France where he had been receiving treatment for cancer. The ...